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Matsumoto Castle’s black-and-white keep beyond the approach and courtyard.

Matsumoto Castle

Matsumoto Castle preserves a connected timber keep complex whose defensive towers and later moon-viewing spaces reveal different phases of castle life.

Painted warrior on horseback identified in a later Nagashino battle screen as Ishikawa Kazumasa

Ishikawa Kazumasa

Ishikawa Kazumasa was a senior Tokugawa retainer who entered Toyotomi service in 1585 and later advanced Matsumoto’s castle and town development.